warehouse - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2008
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After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

on objective measures. The MBA Pathfinder Data Warehouse stores admissions, enrollment, and employment information. If not exactly an antidote to the rankings, Pathfinder can at least lay claim to being the definitive source of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale

as it passes. It’s probably obvious, but you could just replicate the old model and stamp it out. There are lots of regional micro-fulfillment centers that are closer to customers, all with seven employees on the line. —Casey Taylor (MBA 2011) This is a View Details

01 Jun 2014
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A Look at Olook

André Beisert's olook targets a very particular part of Brazil's new consumer market. "Our brand has a persona," Beisert (MBA 2009) says in his white brick office, which sits atop a small warehouse in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; fashion; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket

A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Dec 2020
News

The Complete Package

“You have to be honest and deliver on what you have promised.” Essential entrepreneurship skill: Driving a 14-foot pickup and a warehouse forklift. “Sometimes you must really dirty your hands,” she says. “The men would always be very... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

Amazon.com had to do, and this was in the United States! Partnership with established logistics companies is a choice, and renting warehouse space may be possible, but building a completely captive system and investing in it would destroy... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

customer. ET then went a step further, locating an aluminum extruder in China that would manufacture some of the parts used in the panels. “We ship in 48 hours from our Singapore partner’s warehouse to the customer’s facility,” Sharpe... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

have increased tremendously through the use of information technology," Harad notes. He points out that in the office products distribution business, order fulfillment (30,000 40,000 individual orders per day at peak ordering time), package delivery, and View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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